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Can you please point us to that article?

Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Our immediate plans don't involve maintaing country specific domains. We might revisit this if/when DDG is available in additional languages.

Also, some users don't like that country level redirect and prefer the .com.

One solution, which does require a couple of steps is to use our Cloud save & save your settings anonymously in the cloud.

At the bottom of the settings page (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html), you can enable cloud save, there is also a FAQ.

prakashon DuckDuckHack

Right now, you can go to settings (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html) & select UK from the region settings.

prakashon DuckDuckHack

Please check github: - https://github.com/duckduckgo - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies

Some of these are listed on our Goodies page: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies/

New plugins are announced on http://twitter.com/duckduckhack

Feedback welcome.

prakashon DuckDuckHack

Thanks for the feedback, will pass it along.

prakashon Bing vs. Google

(we're still the only search engine that lets you completely turn off ads as a user preference for example)

You can do that with DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html > Layout tab > Advertisements.

[I work at DDG.]

prakashon Introducing DuckDuckHack

Good ideas, we are collecting all of them here: http://ideas.duckduckhack.com/

prakashon Introducing DuckDuckHack

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3915588

prakashon DuckDuckGo is blowing up

!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.

Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html reply

prakashon DuckDuckGo is blowing up

!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.

Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

prakashon DuckDuckGo is blowing up

Fastestfox, Cyberspace and others use our API: http://duckduckgo.com/api.html

Would love to hear ideas on (iii).

prakashon DuckDuckGo is blowing up

Fastestfox, Cyberspace and others use our API: http://duckduckgo.com/api.html

prakashon Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012

You can use "!gi" to search google images from DDG & "!bi" to search bing images.

prakashon New AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil

don't wait. You can use Cedexis to do geo/cost/more with multiple aws regions/ availability zones: http://www.cedexis.com/products/cedexis-openmix/

prakashon Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

I recently stumbled across a web-page from the guy whose professional bio is “wrote the backend billing code that 97% of Google’s revenue passes through.” He’s now an angel investor (a polite synonym for “rich”).

Any idea who this person is?

prakashon Global average response times from EC2 regions

Here's a country based comparison of cloud perf: http://www.cedexis.com/which-is-the-right-cloud-for-the-job-...

You can get access to this data (my comment above and the cloud connect presentation) by signing up for a free account on our site: http://www.cedexis.com/which-is-the-right-cloud-for-the-job-...

prakashon "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."

That bookmark service that did great out of the del.ici.ous fiasco (sorry I honestly can't remember your name!).

http://pinboard.in/

prakashon Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg

Josh has been on HN since the beginning: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jkopelman

prakashon Why DNS-based Global Server Load Balancing does not work [2004]

Since the Amazon outage, I've been wondering about the best way to quickly switch to another host.

This is exact problem we (Cedexis) solve.

Assume your site is www.website.com, in general points to an A record or a CNAME to a datacenter/ cloud/ CDN.

We add an intermediate hostname, low TTL (20 seconds), global anycast network, which can be scripted (write your load-balancing logic in php) to handout a CNAME (one of many) based on performance (RTT), load, cost, anything else you can think of, etc.

Re.: AWS's recent outage, assuming you are running your apps in multiple zones/ regions/ clouds, we would have noticed the latency and automatically routed away to a different zone/ region/ cloud.

We collect hundreds of millions of performance measurements daily: http://gigaom.com/cloud/heres-what-amazon-outage-looked-like...

Drop an email and I am happy to explain more and setup folks from HN with a free account: prakash at cedexis.com

prakashon Amazon Web Services are down

Here's the 24h latency data on EC2 east, west, eu, apac: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-24h.png

Last 60 minutes comparison data: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-60m.png

time in GMT.

A study we (Cedexis) did in January comparing multiple ec2 zones and other cloud providers: (pdf) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/76-marty-kagan.pdf

prakashon Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot

At Cedexis, we compared cloud performance using 15 billion measurements from actual end-users in 220 countries and 23,800 networks between:

- Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Google App Engine and Azure and

- How do EC2's East, West, EU & APAC zones compare

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/76-marty-kagan.pdf

Drop me a note if you are interested in additional information, a similar test for your website -- prakash at cedexis.com

prakashon "Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability"

We (Cedexis) presented our findings on - How do EC2's East, West, EU & APAC zones compare: (pdf) http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/2011/presentations/free/76-...

If you would like to know more please send me an email: prakash [at] cedexis.com

prakashon Cloud Ping

we do that for 233 countries and 32,000 networks: http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...

We also throw away the end-user IP.

prakashon Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo

Here's a comparison of various EC2 regions & other providers in the US: http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...

prakashon Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?

Slava (coffeemug) has some excellent thoughts on this subject: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455008

prakashon Rackspace Cloud switching CDN from Limelight to Akamai

If you are interested in CDN performance comparison as seen by end-users take a look at our Charts: http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...

Gabriel (yegg) wrote about our services on his blog -- http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/12/testing-cdn-perf...

prakashon List of YC companies, ordered by response time from EC2

If anyone is interested in monitoring internal infrastructure and cloud monitoring as seen by your end-users, shoot me an email - prakash@cedexis.com

Gabriel wrote about our services on his blog http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/12/testing-cdn-perf...

prakashon Steve's story - Google employee #13

Who's the VP of BD Steve refers to? Thanks!

prakashon Testing DuckDuckGo CDN performance via Cedexis Radar

You are correct, you need to add a javascript tag, which pulls the same object from multiple CDN's.

Please go to http://www.lemonde.fr/ -- do a view-source, search for "radar", and you will see our javascript. You can also use firebug to get a sense of what's going on.

Please send me an email if you need more info: prakash@cedexis.com

prakashon Testing DuckDuckGo CDN performance via Cedexis Radar

Depends on the type of website. The idea is to get a representative view of the type of content your website delivers. So, if you are into downloads of large movies, we could put a custom test object to suit those needs, if you are doing thumbnails, it would be different.

In this case it was a small http object.

Happy to answer any other questions you might have: prakash@cedexis.com